[Deo volente]

Yes, that’s what I came up with for a spacecraft moving at 50,000 mph. It would take over 54,000 years to reach the nearest star, Promixa Centauri, which is about 25 trillion miles away. The size of the universe is mind boggling.

[xp38]

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy